Fertilizer-distributer



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F R GLASGOUK Pe r tilize r-Distributer.

No. 227,762. Patented May 18, 1-880.

MPETERS, PHOTOLIYHOGRAPHER, WASHINQTUN D. C.

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Fertilizer-Distributor. No. 227,762. I PatentedMay 18,1880.

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FRANK B. GLASCOOK, OF HILLSBOROUGH, OHIO.

FERTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,762, dated May 18, 1880.

Application filed November 8, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK R. GLASOOGK, of Hillsborough, in the county of Highland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fertilizer-Distributers; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to the construction of a fertilizer-distributer; and it consists in cer tain peculiarities of construction, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view Fig. 2,-a central longitudinal section; Fig. 3, a detail crosssection of the bottom of the hopper. Fig. 4 is a rear view, and Fig. 5 an end elevation.

A represents the hopper in which the fertilizer is placed for distribution. The bottom B of this hopper is made somewhat in V form in cross-section but the sides of said bottom are curved convexly, as shown, and at suitable intervals this bottom is provided with openings to a for the exit of the fertilizer.

Between the openings a, as well as at each end of the box, are arranged division-blocks G 0, made beveled, as shown, so as to form, as it were, a series of smaller hoppers, each having its sides inclining toward the opening a.

Under the division-blocks O is placed .a slide, D, operated by means of a lever, E. This slide is made to fit the bottom B, and

- has openings 1) at suitable intervals, to regisextend the entire length of the box, and are The shaft F is extended through one of the hangers G and through the support for the box at that end, and there provided with a gear-wheel, H, to receive its motion through any suitable mechanism from the drivingwheels of the machine.

The front shaft, F,has'enlarged or elongated bearings in the hangers, as shownat d, which allows the rolls I to fall back at an incline from the main rolls I. By this means it allows the feed to separate when the fertilizer is in the box and the feed is started, it being understood that each pair of rolls I I come together directly at the corresponding discharge-opening a, and as the rolls rotate the fertilizer is fed downward by them.

When the motion is stopped the tendency of the rolls I is to close up andkeep the fertilizer from wasting.

Within the box A is a longitudinal bar, J, movable in slots in the end pieces of the box, and provided with arms or fingers L directly over the discharge-openings, to form an agitator for the fertilizer. This bar J is provided near one end with a slotted projection, h, in which works a worm, a, secured upon a short shaft, m, having its bearing in a box fastened in the end piece of the box. On the outer end of the shaft m is a disk, M, with a wrist-pin, 19, connected by a pitman, P, with a similar wrist-pin fastened on the cog-wheel H. By this means the agitator obtains a longitudinally-reciprocating motion and stirs up the fertilizer.

I am well aware that the state of the art shows carding-machines to have been made with two rollers, one kept in contact with. the other by gravity-bearings; also that elastic rolls have been used in seeding and fertilizn ing machines; but in these instances the rollers have been integral-that is to say, they have extended from side to side of the hopper'--and not broken up into series of rollers, as in my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a fertilizer-distributor, the combination of a series of rubber rolls secured upon a shaft In testimony that I claim the foregoing as having stationary bearings, and another series my own I afiix my signature in presence of of rubber rolls secured upon a shaft having two witnesses.

elongated bearings arranged on an incline, to FRANK R. GLASOOOK. 5 allow said latter rolls to fall by gravity against Witnesses the first series of rolls, substantially as and JOHN T. HIRE,

for the purposes herein set forth. CYRUS NEWBY. 

